by Julie | Apr 10, 2019 | Life Stuff
Fortnum and Mason in London – one of my places to go checked off. Do you have a bucket list? I have put together lists like these in the past but they felt overwhelming and like too much pressure. Lately, however, I’ve circled back around to this idea and...
by Julie | Jun 19, 2018 | Entertaining, Food & Celebrations, Life Stuff, New York, Travel & KC
Last month our youngest, Grant, graduated from Saint Louis University and started a new job in … New York City! You guys, I’m not gonna lie, this development has been tough on this mom, but he is absolutely living his dream, so it’s all good....
by Julie | Aug 13, 2015 | Books & Reading, Life Stuff, New York, Travel & KC
So, funny story. Two years ago this week, Lindsey and I were in New York to be on the TODAY show. (Did you miss our 4 ½ minutes of fame? You can see them here.) The next day was rainy – very rainy – and we were killing time in a bookstore in the basement of...
by Julie | Jul 8, 2015 | Books & Reading, Life Stuff
Our book club began in a grade school parking lot. A few of us who had pickup duty began talking about it, we each invited a couple of others, and the club was born in this most casual of ways. It stuck, too. Unlike clubs that seem to work on paper but don’t in real...
by Julie | Jun 30, 2015 | Books & Reading, Life Stuff, Travel & KC
Last weekend Tom and I took Grant and seven of his high school friends to the Lake of the Ozarks for his birthday. Lindsey went too, brave soul. We stayed in two trailers owned by Tom’s mom: boys in one; Tom, Lindsey and me in the other. This is the...
by Julie | Jun 23, 2015 | Life Stuff
Recently I was getting a long overdue allergy shot, and I commented to the nurse that it was somehow harder to get there once a month than it had been when I was coming in once a week. She told me that she hears that all the time, and asked if I had signed up for text...